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FOOTBALL BACK IN 1869.; Rutgers Beat Princeton in First Intercollegiate Match.

Intercollegiate football is forty-seven years old this season, the first gridiron game having been played between Rutgers and Princeton on Nov. 6, 1869, at New Brunswick. Rutgers won by a score of 6 to 4. The game at that time was a very unwieldy affair and there were twenty-five players on a side.

November 26, 1916

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